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Understanding Consumption

by Angus Deaton

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 This book provides an overview of the recent research on saving and consumption, a field in which substantial progress has been made over the last decade. Attempts by economists to understand saving and consumption patterns have generated some of the best science in economics. For more than fifty years, there has been serious empirical and theoretical activity, and data, theory, and policy have never been separated as has happened in many branches of economics. Research has drawn microeconomists interested in household behaviour, as well as macroeconomists, for whom the behaviour of aggregate consumption has always occupied a central role in explaining aggregate fluctuations. Econometricians have also made distinguished contributions, and there has been a steady flow of new methodologies by those working on saving and consumption, in time-series econometrics, as well as in the study of micro and panel data. A coherent account of these developments is presented here, emphasizing the interplay between micro and the macro, between studies of cross-section and panels, and those using aggregate time series data.
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Volatility And Growth

by Philippe (Robert C. Waggoner Professor Of Economics, Harvard University) Aghion

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 Aghion and Banerjee build a model of an aggregate economy that takes the interactions between volatility and growth seriously, while still being open to the possibility of market failures. Looking through a new lens, they begin to explain persistent macroeconomic volatility and the effects of volatility on growth.
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Macro Markets - Creating Institutions For Managing Society''S Largest Economic Risks

by Robert J. Shiller

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 Robert Shiller has created a proposals for establishing new markets for the management of the biggest economic risks faced by governments. He argues that we have largely the wrong financial markets and that establishing new ones may fundamentally alter and diminish international economic fluctuations and reduce the inequality of incomes.
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Competing In Capabilities - The Globalization Process

by John Sutton

43,71€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers a new perspective of globalization. The author moves away from the established 'For or Against' debates and shows what the globalization process looks like from Chinese, Indian, and African perspectives.
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Competing In Capabilities - The Globalization Process

by John Sutton

43,71€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers a new perspective of globalization. The author moves away from the established 'For or Against' debates and shows what the globalization process looks like from Chinese, Indian, and African perspectives.
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Strategic Asset Allocation - Portfolio Choice For Long-Term Investors

by John Y. Campbell e Luis M. Viceira

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 Academic finance has had a remarkable impact on many financial services. Yet long-term investors have received curiously little guidance from academic financial economists.Mean-variance analysis, developed almost fifty years ago, has provided a basic paradigm for portfolio choice. This approach usefully emphasizes the ability of diversification to reduce risk, but it ignores several critically important factors. Most notably, the analysis is static; it assumes that investors care only about risks to wealth one period ahead. However, many investors—-both individuals and institutions such as charitable foundations or universities—-seek to finance a stream ofconsumption over a long lifetime. In addition, mean-variance analysis treats financial wealth in isolation from income. Long-term investors typically receive a stream of income and use it, along with financial wealth, to support their consumption.At the theoretical level, it is well understood that the solution to a long-term portfolio choice problem can be very different from the solution to a short-term problem. Long-term investors care about intertemporal shocks to investment opportunities and labor income as well as shocks to wealth itself, and they may use financial assets to hedge their intertemporal risks. This should be important in practice because there is a great deal of empirical evidence that investment opportunities—-bothinterest rates and risk premia on bonds and stocks—-vary through time. Yet this insight has had little influence on investment practice because it is hard to solve for optimal portfolios in intertemporal models.This book seeks to develop the intertemporal approach into an empirical paradigm that can compete with the standard mean-variance analysis. The book shows that long-term inflation-indexed bonds are the riskless asset for long-term investors, it explains the conditions under which stocks are safer assets for long-term than for short-term investors, and it shows how labor income influences portfolio choice. These results shed new light on the rules of thumb used by financial planners. The bookexplains recent advances in both analytical and numerical methods, and shows how they can be used to understand the portfolio choice problems of long-term investors.
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Inefficient Markets - An Introduction To Behavioural Finance

by Andrei Shleifer

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 'The Efficient Markets Hypothesis' has been the central proposition of finance for nearly 30 years. This book presents an alternative view of financial markets: behavioural finance. Shleifer demonstrates the oversimplification of EMH both in the common assumption of perfect rationality and the failure of arbitrage to adjust prices correctly.
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Firms, Contracts, And Financial Structure

by Oliver Hart

47,69€ + 10% CARD

 Oliver Hart's 'Clarendon Lectures' are a contribution to contact theory as it is developing in economic analysis, and especially in the context of the firm. He starts by developing a general model of the firm, and then analyses in greater depth the financial structure of firms, debt collecting and bankruptcy. T
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Inefficient Markets - An Introduction To Behavioral Finance

by Andrei (Professor Of Economics, Professor Of Economics, Harvard University) Shleifer

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 'The Efficient Markets Hypothesis' has been the central proposition of finance for nearly 30 years. This book presents an alternative view of financial markets: behavioural finance. Shleifer demonstrates the oversimplification of EMH both in the common assumption of perfect rationality and the failure of arbitrage to adjust prices correctly.
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Archaeological Gazetteer Of Afghanistan - Revised Edition

by Warwick (Independent Archaeologist) Ball

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 The Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan: Revised Edition is the most comprehensive reference work on the archaeology and monuments of Afghanistan ever undertaken, significantly expanding on the work of the 1982 edition and cataloguing all recorded sites and monuments from the earliest times to the Timurid period.
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Mind, Meaning, And Knowledge - Themes From The Philosophy Of Crispin Wright

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 This volume is a collective exploration of major themes in the work of Crispin Wright, one of today's leading philosophers. The distinguished contributors address a variety of issues, including truth, realism, anti-realism, relativism, and scepticism, and testify to Wright's seminal work on language, mind, metaphysics, and epistemology.
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Competing In Capabilities - The Globalization Process

by John (Sir John Hicks Professor Of Economics, London School Of Economics) Sutton

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 This book offers a new perspective of globalization. The author moves away from the established 'For or Against' debates and shows what the globalization process looks like from Chinese, Indian, and African perspectives.
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Macro Markets - Creating Institutions For Managing Society'S Largest Economic Risks

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 Robert Shiller has created a proposals for establishing new markets for the management of the biggest economic risks faced by governments. He argues that we have largely the wrong financial markets and that establishing new ones may fundamentally alter and diminish international economic fluctuations and reduce the inequality of incomes.
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Volatility And Growth

by Abhijit V. Banerjee e Philippe (Robert C. Waggoner Professor Of Economics, Harvard University) Aghion

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 Attempts to analyze the effects of macroeconomic volatility on productivity growth, and the reverse causality from growth to business cycles. This book shows that by looking at the economy through the lens of private entrepreneurs, who invest under credit constraints, one can go a long way towards explaining persistent macroeconomic volatility.
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Crisis, Stabilization, And Economic Reform - Therapy By Consensus

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 Considers the phenomenon of the high inflation processes of the 1970s and 1980s as exemplified by Argentina, Brazil and Israel. The author examines common characteristics of such processes and their possible cures, focusing on the Israeli experience of the political economy of stabilization.
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The Economics Of Post-Communist Transition

by Olivier Blanchard

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 This book presents a unified analysis of transition. Transition in Central and Eastern Europe has led to a U-shaped response of output, that is, a sharp decline in output followed by recovery. This U-shaped response, its causes and its implications, are the subject of this text. Now available in paperback.
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Incentives And Political Economy

by The Late Jean-Jacques (, University Of Toulouse) Laffont

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 'Incentives and Political Economy' constructs a normative approach to constitutional design using recent developments in contract theory. It treats political economy as the study of the incentive problems created by the delegation of economic policy to self-interested politicians.
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Incentives And Political Economy

by The Late Jean-Jacques (, University Of Toulouse) Laffont

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 'Incentives and Political Economy' constructs a normative approach to constitutional design using developments in contract theory. It treats political economy as the study of the incentive problems created by the delegation of Politicians are treated successively as informed supervisors or residual decision-makers.
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Strategic Asset Allocation - Portfolio Choice For Long-Term Investors

by Professor John Y. (, Otto Eckstein Professor Of Applied Economics, Harvard University) Campbell e Professor Luis M. (, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School) Viceira

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 This work links cutting-edge academic analysis of portfolio choice to the practical concerns of institutional investors, financial planners, and individual investors. It shows in empirical detail how long-term portfolios should differ from short-term portfolios.
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Understanding Consumption

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 An overview of the most recent research on the saving and consumption patterns of households - a very active area of research in economics in which substanital progress has been made over the last decade.
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Inefficient Markets - An Introduction To Behavioural Finance

by Andrei (Professor Of Economics, Professor Of Economics, Harvard University) Shleifer

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 'The Efficient Markets Hypothesis' has been the central proposition of finance for nearly 30 years. This book presents an alternative view of financial markets: behavioural finance. Shleifer demonstrates the oversimplification of EMH both in the common assumption of perfect rationality and the failure of arbitrage to adjust prices correctly.
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Game Theory And Economic Modelling

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 The advent of noncooperative game theory over the past two decades has brought about a mild revolution in economics. This book presents an accessible, non-technical discussion of the basic concepts from noncooperative theory, and explores the strengths, weaknesses, and future of the theory as a tool for economists.

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